Mechanical Man

Adrift on a generational colony ship, one teen searches for his place in the past.
Life is hard when your mother is the Captain of a doomed colony ship, a generation after the accident that left his home adrift in space, one teen struggles to find a reason to keep working.

This story was originally written in 1994 and was the writer's first professional sale in science fiction. Alas, the magazine folded before the issue went to print and there followed a grand epic in getting the publishing rights returned.